Critical Care in Pregnant Patients: Ultrasound is a volume in the Critical Care Obstetrics series. It’s a novel reference to educate physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with various health compromises. The chapters reflect the growing scope of critical care obstetrics and the increasing importance and recognition of the hospital structure's field. All intensivists, regardless of primary discipline, must possess a core set of critical care skills that allow them to manage critically ill patients.

The authors have gathered the best evidence-based material explicitly focused on how ultrasound can successfully manage potential scenarios of common and rare health complications. It provides the basics of ultrasound and the latest technological advances of ultrasound to foster research and improve health outcomes and in pregnant patients.

• Includes obstetric concepts with updated knowledge of changes in pregnancy
• Offers best practice approaches and management of potential serious conditions using the latest technology in ultrasound
• Presents features and management of ultrasound in common complications during pregnancy
• Chapters are written by authors with extensive clinical experience in critical obstetric care